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“Polivalents is an annual one-day session programmed and presented by the resident artists of Hangar, featuring activities by the resident artists alongside other invited artists.

For MONTACARGAS, the 2016 edition of Polivalents, we present the theme of ascension as farce, elevation and levitation. Movements generated through creativity, adaptation, improvisation & humour to explore possibilities to reboot ourselves. Let’s discover if it’s still possible to be lifted to alternate & parallel places.”

I’m participating in the exhibition Estructuras de Excepión, which opens this Saturday at Homesession. The exhibition is the result of a series of workshops organised by Idensitat and led by Ángela Bonadies. I’ll be presenting my new publication, Empire of Rats, along with some works on paper. The exhibition runs until the 30th of July.

The exhibition is the result of field-work carried out by the participants of the workshop Estructuras de Excepción in July 2015 led by Ángela Bonadies, which involved exploring the port of Barcelona and finding “exceptional” cases from which deploy ideas, texts and images.

The workshop participants have worked collectively in two work groups, which focused their search on two spaces of Barcelona’s waterfront: the IMAX 3D Cinema and its surroundings; and the relationship between Barceloneta and its memory and Marina del Puerto Viejo.

The final film by master director Elem Klimov is a highpoint of Russian cinema, and perhaps the finest film about war ever made. A hallucinogenic nightmare of overwhelming intensity, Come and See takes the dreamlike poetry of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Herzog’s Aguirre and descends into a swamp of disorientation and brutality to create a singular cinematic work. Even more surprising then that this film was a fully authorised product of the state film studio Mosfilm, and that its director, one of whose films had previously been banned by the censors, was able to produce an uncomprising work that draws on his personal experiences as a boy during the German occupation of Russia. Come and See, although critically lauded remains relatively little known, perhaps due to its supreme intensity; it was to be Klimov’s final film, the director sure that he could do nothing more with cinema to follow up his masterpiece. We are excited to show this one of a kind film, which is a fascinating mix of auteurist and big studio film making, combining uncompromising politics and personal testimony with iconic cinematic visuals and ferocious performances.

Drawing from the world’s rich vein of avant garde, experimental, underground, and otherwise provocative cinema, Projections from the Underground is a series of film screenings at La Escocesa programmed by resident artist David Franklin. All of the screenings are free and open to everyone, and we hope to create a communal experience for people to discover and enjoy cinema and art in an informal setting.